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ONLY 375 AT CHICKASAW PARK OPENING
Race Repudiates "Jim Crow" Programs of Republican Party SMALL CROWD DISAPPOINTS SPEAKERS Louisville, through the Republican party, made history last Saturday at 3 o'clock. Chickasaw Park, the "Jim-crow" park for Negroes of the erstwhile fair and beautiful city, firstling, loyal, true and tried of the D. O. P. was opened last Saturday afternoon as the first and greatest gift of the masters to their slaves. Not a token of esteem for service that would make the faithful look upon their present days status as citizens of this community with cheerfulness, thankfulness and increased hope for, and faith in the future, but a gift that makes a good majority of the 27,000 hide their faces in shame, quickening the flood of the free and independent, crushing their spirit and carrying them back twenty-five years behind a shineless sun, more disgusted than discouraged, not as much at the 27,000 Negroes as at the Republican party. Not the party of Lincoln, Grant and Roosevelt, but the party of Harding, Ogden and Searcy.
Chickasaw Park is a reality, a part of the present day program, the "lily" white policy of the Republican administration, said to have been sanctioned, and worse than that, asked for, by certain Negroes in whom we have as [much?] [illegible] as [we?] have in the party in Louisville and Jefferson [County as?] it stands today. But these sponsors of a distinct, a separate park for Negroes, these conceivers of an idea that is a fragrant insult to the self respecting Negro; few as they may be, these harbingers and distributers of an idea that tends to instill race hatred into the minds of men, women and children, one race against the other, threatening a race relation that has been cordial and happy, promoting a "jim-crowism" that will eventually touch every phase of the life of the black people of this community, a "jim-crowism" that only the future can reveal; these "lily" white Republican leaders, with their "pussy footing" Negroes got little satisfaction out of their project S aturday afternoon.
Speakers Disappointed at Small Attendance It is reported that discouragement and disappointment could be seen on each speaker as they arose to address their hearers. 375 was the approximate count of one of the few who attended, 225 adults and 150 children. This is far below the 3,000 reported by the Louisville Herald, and is more significant when it is known that this number included the guards, the colored women police and the several colored women workers, the more conspicuous of those in attendance. It is reported that several gallons of ice cream not needed were sent to Red Cross Sanitarium and other institutions and the presents for the hundreds, yea, thousands of Negro children expected to be there were sent back to headquarters. And it is the opinion of many of those who have expressed themselves on the subject since Saturday that Chickasaw Park is nothing more than a white elephant on the hands of the Republican Party and the citizens of Louisville, repudiated by the self-respecting Negroes, including hundred s of the most loyal who believe the Republican party is the ship and all else the sea.
President of N. A. A. C. P. Speaks
Speeches on the occasion by Lieut. Governor Ballard, Mayor Quinn and County Attorney Chilton were of the usual order. License Inspector G. G. Yound, colored, spoke in praise of the Republican party, thanking it for the park, it is claimed that he grew eloquent as he told how much the colored people appreciated such a gift.
Rev. W. P. Offutt, pastor of Portland Baptist Church, the President of the N. A. A. C. P., was the other colored speaker. Much criticism has been made on Rev. Offutt for even considering the invitation as speaker at the opening of the park, being the head of an organization that is directly opposed to "jim-cromism", segregation and discrimination in any form, thousands of dollars being spent against it annually by the National office in all parts of the United States.
In explaining his position as speaker, Rev. Offutt claims that he was asked to speak after it was known that Rev. C. C. Stewart of Broadway Temple would not be present to take his place as the principal speaker. He claimed that he even declined the invitation after he had seen the letter from Rev. Stewart explaining that he could not speak because of a previous engagement that he did of think of at the time the request was made of him, and that he (Rev. Offutt) did not make up his mind to speak until after he had heard the speech of Mr. Young. And not wanting to leave the white persons present feeling that Mr. Young spoke the sentiment of a large number of the Negroes of Louisville, he made his speech. It is reported that in his speech Rev. Offutt remarked that there were those present and hundreds not present who would not accept the park, and there are those who will. He added, it is said, that if it was one of the chain of city parks, and not for colored people exclusively , and if they would not be barred from Cherokee, Shawnee and the other city parks, he would accept it, otherwise he would not, as he accepted nothing that would curtail his privileges as a citizen. Thus, [Chickasaw Park?] becomes history, [whether?] for good or bad.
SOUTH AROUSED AT
NEGROES REVOLT
ON LYNCHING
WANTS TO KNOW IF NEGROES RE IN EARNEST
CONGRESS A
DYER WANTS
SPEEDY ACTION
MEMBERS OF EGRO PRESS AT KU KLUX KLAN EETING
49TH ANNUAL COMENCEME T AT WILBERFORCE
A GO Q CHOCL HEAO; OUSTED BEG~USE HE OPPUSED S. O. P.

ONLY 375 AT CHICKASAW PARK OPENING
Race Repudiates "Jim Crow" Programs of Republican Party SMALL CROWD DISAPPOINTS SPEAKERS Louisville, through the Republican party, made history last Saturday at 3 o'clock. Chickasaw Park, the "Jim-crow" park for Negroes of the erstwhile fair and beautiful city, firstling, loyal, true and tried of the D. O. P. was opened last Saturday afternoon as the first and greatest gift of the masters to their slaves. Not a token of esteem for service that would make the faithful look upon their present days status as citizens of this community with cheerfulness, thankfulness and increased hope for, and faith in the future, but a gift that makes a good majority of the 27,000 hide their faces in shame, quickening the flood of the free and independent, crushing their spirit and carrying them back twenty-five years behind a shineless sun, more disgusted than discouraged, not as much at the 27,000 Negroes as at the Republican party. Not the party of Lincoln, Grant and Roosevelt, but the party of Harding, Ogden and Searcy.
Chickasaw Park is a reality, a part of the present day program, the "lily" white policy of the Republican administration, said to have been sanctioned, and worse than that, asked for, by certain Negroes in whom we have as [much?] [illegible] as [we?] have in the party in Louisville and Jefferson [County as?] it stands today. But these sponsors of a distinct, a separate park for Negroes, these conceivers of an idea that is a fragrant insult to the self respecting Negro; few as they may be, these harbingers and distributers of an idea that tends to instill race hatred into the minds of men, women and children, one race against the other, threatening a race relation that has been cordial and happy, promoting a "jim-crowism" that will eventually touch every phase of the life of the black people of this community, a "jim-crowism" that only the future can reveal; these "lily" white Republican leaders, with their "pussy footing" Negroes got little satisfaction out of their project S aturday afternoon.
Speakers Disappointed at Small Attendance It is reported that discouragement and disappointment could be seen on each speaker as they arose to address their hearers. 375 was the approximate count of one of the few who attended, 225 adults and 150 children. This is far below the 3,000 reported by the Louisville Herald, and is more significant when it is known that this number included the guards, the colored women police and the several colored women workers, the more conspicuous of those in attendance. It is reported that several gallons of ice cream not needed were sent to Red Cross Sanitarium and other institutions and the presents for the hundreds, yea, thousands of Negro children expected to be there were sent back to headquarters. And it is the opinion of many of those who have expressed themselves on the subject since Saturday that Chickasaw Park is nothing more than a white elephant on the hands of the Republican Party and the citizens of Louisville, repudiated by the self-respecting Negroes, including hundred s of the most loyal who believe the Republican party is the ship and all else the sea.
President of N. A. A. C. P. Speaks
Speeches on the occasion by Lieut. Governor Ballard, Mayor Quinn and County Attorney Chilton were of the usual order. License Inspector G. G. Yound, colored, spoke in praise of the Republican party, thanking it for the park, it is claimed that he grew eloquent as he told how much the colored people appreciated such a gift.
Rev. W. P. Offutt, pastor of Portland Baptist Church, the President of the N. A. A. C. P., was the other colored speaker. Much criticism has been made on Rev. Offutt for even considering the invitation as speaker at the opening of the park, being the head of an organization that is directly opposed to "jim-cromism", segregation and discrimination in any form, thousands of dollars being spent against it annually by the National office in all parts of the United States.
In explaining his position as speaker, Rev. Offutt claims that he was asked to speak after it was known that Rev. C. C. Stewart of Broadway Temple would not be present to take his place as the principal speaker. He claimed that he even declined the invitation after he had seen the letter from Rev. Stewart explaining that he could not speak because of a previous engagement that he did of think of at the time the request was made of him, and that he (Rev. Offutt) did not make up his mind to speak until after he had heard the speech of Mr. Young. And not wanting to leave the white persons present feeling that Mr. Young spoke the sentiment of a large number of the Negroes of Louisville, he made his speech. It is reported that in his speech Rev. Offutt remarked that there were those present and hundreds not present who would not accept the park, and there are those who will. He added, it is said, that if it was one of the chain of city parks, and not for colored people exclusively , and if they would not be barred from Cherokee, Shawnee and the other city parks, he would accept it, otherwise he would not, as he accepted nothing that would curtail his privileges as a citizen. Thus, [Chickasaw Park?] becomes history, [whether?] for good or bad.
SOUTH AROUSED AT
NEGROES REVOLT
ON LYNCHING
WANTS TO KNOW IF NEGROES RE IN EARNEST
CONGRESS A
DYER WANTS
SPEEDY ACTION
MEMBERS OF EGRO PRESS AT KU KLUX KLAN EETING
49TH ANNUAL COMENCEME T AT WILBERFORCE
A GO Q CHOCL HEAO; OUSTED BEG~USE HE OPPUSED S. O. P.